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i don't think it will, piers. i think the president will win other battleground states that are crucial to a victory. but certainly here in ohio, over the last four months, mitt romney has never held a lead. the president has always maintained a relatively small but a very consistent lead in ohio. and i see nothing that's changed that in these last few hours. so i think ohio is going to end up in the obama column and consequently, i think he will be re-elected to a second term. >> we had the huge storm that hit the east coast. there's no doubt looking at the polls you can see that the president's opportunity to be a president for that week has helped him and damaged mitt romney. it's one of the events that can hit anybody in a campaign. how significant do you think it's been, hurricane sandy and the way that played out for both sides? >> as far as ohio is concerned, i think the president has had and has maintained, as i said, a consistent lead for a variety of reasons. first of all, the auto rescue and quite frank
i don't think it will, piers. i think the president will win other battleground states that are crucial to a victory. but certainly here in ohio, over the last four months, mitt romney has never held a lead. the president has always maintained a relatively small but a very consistent lead in ohio. and i see nothing that's changed that in these last few hours. so i think ohio is going to end up in the obama column and consequently, i think he will be re-elected to a second term. >> we had...
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how are you, piers? >> you must feel like you've -- you must feel like the end of the longest marathon run in the history of marathon runs. how would you describe the mood down at the romney camp? do you sense you're amongst people who believe they can win? >> yes. absolutely. in their conference calls, when they talk to reporters that are on the road with them, they are looking around them and they are talking to their various offices in these swing states and they feel very confident about enthusiasm. they say the enthusiasm is on their side. they also say that there's a great phrase that they use called high propensity voters and those are folks that always come out on election day, and they take a look at those early voting states, in ohio, for instance, where the democrats seem to have a large edge in the early votes, and they say well, that's because they quote, cannibalize their high propensity voters which means they believe the obama team is turning out people that would have shown up on electio
how are you, piers? >> you must feel like you've -- you must feel like the end of the longest marathon run in the history of marathon runs. how would you describe the mood down at the romney camp? do you sense you're amongst people who believe they can win? >> yes. absolutely. in their conference calls, when they talk to reporters that are on the road with them, they are looking around them and they are talking to their various offices in these swing states and they feel very...
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>> reporter: certain any this area, piers there is a real mood of frustration. people here are torn, you can see why. just look all around me, i'm standing on a boardwalk here, this used to be part of a miles long boardwalk that ran along the ocean and now, sandy had broken it up and has sent it down the streets and it's lined with all kinds of debris from homes that have been flooded here. they have got no power there is no electricity here. they have got no telephone service, only spotty cell phone service and the temperatures are plunging. so, what are they thinking about? they are trying to figure out how to clean up from all of this and this is the backdrop for coming up on the eve of election day. what do they do about that? how do they get to the polls? these are some of the issues that they are frustrated about right now. >> but tell me this, susan, do they care about the election or is this the last thing on their minds? do these people -- lost their homes, their livelihoods in some cases, their lives do they care enough about this election to try to ge
>> reporter: certain any this area, piers there is a real mood of frustration. people here are torn, you can see why. just look all around me, i'm standing on a boardwalk here, this used to be part of a miles long boardwalk that ran along the ocean and now, sandy had broken it up and has sent it down the streets and it's lined with all kinds of debris from homes that have been flooded here. they have got no power there is no electricity here. they have got no telephone service, only...
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>> certainly in this area, piers, there's a mood of frustration. people here are torn and you can see why just look all around me. i'm standing on part of a board walk. this used to be part of a miles long board walk that ran along the ocean. sandy has broken it up and sent it down the streets. it's lined with all kinds of debris from homes flooded here. they have no power. no telephone service. only spotty cell phone service. the temperatures are plunging. what are they thinking about? how to clean up from all of this, and this is the backdrop for coming up on the eve of election day. what do they do about that? how do they get to the polls? these are some of the issues they're frustrated about right now. >> tell me this, susan, do they care about the election? or is this the last thing on their minds? these people have lost their homes, their livelihoods, in some cases their lives. do they care enough about this election to try to get to a polling booth, even if they could? >> you know, i've been talking to a lot of people out here, they're of tw
>> certainly in this area, piers, there's a mood of frustration. people here are torn and you can see why just look all around me. i'm standing on part of a board walk. this used to be part of a miles long board walk that ran along the ocean. sandy has broken it up and sent it down the streets. it's lined with all kinds of debris from homes flooded here. they have no power. no telephone service. only spotty cell phone service. the temperatures are plunging. what are they thinking about?...
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>> piers, i think it begs the question. why would you go on every major sunday show, because you have tof affirmatively put yourself out there if you had nothing to do with it. you know you have a certain responsibility and you have to be able to tell the american people the truth, and i think that there are serious questions about it. we know that there was e-mails sent from the state department within hours to the white house identifying that ansar al sharia had claimed responsibility, a terrorist group, and for the administration to put her out there and also in her role as a u.n. ambassador, why are you putting me out there versus the secretary of state or the cia or even leon panetta. >> does this tell you it is cover-up or conspiracy? are we talking about a major cover-up that we are defeating al qaeda or simply just pretty poor performance by all of the people up the line in dealing with this attack? >> well, it is why we need to get to the bottom of all of the questions that i identified earlier and it is one of two
>> piers, i think it begs the question. why would you go on every major sunday show, because you have tof affirmatively put yourself out there if you had nothing to do with it. you know you have a certain responsibility and you have to be able to tell the american people the truth, and i think that there are serious questions about it. we know that there was e-mails sent from the state department within hours to the white house identifying that ansar al sharia had claimed responsibility,...
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>> i think a deal has to get done eventually, piers. we had a presidential election, the one issue on which mitt romney and the president were most apart, that is the biggest issue in the campaign, where there was the clearest choice, was on whether taxes should be raised on the wealthy and the american public obviously, by electing president obama decided that they should. now, if nothing is done, if there is no agreement between democrats and republicans, then on january is 1st, the bush tax cuts expire, and not only do average working people have a tax increase, but the rich will have a very large tax increase because they got the lion's share of the benefits of the bush tax cuts. well, republicans have to choose here. are they going to allow everybody to suffer? or do they think that it is appropriate to have the rich bear the lion's share of deficit reduction and the responsibility for reducing deficits by means of generating more revenues? >> one of the problems, of course, if you do raise taxes, a lot of americans who would then
>> i think a deal has to get done eventually, piers. we had a presidential election, the one issue on which mitt romney and the president were most apart, that is the biggest issue in the campaign, where there was the clearest choice, was on whether taxes should be raised on the wealthy and the american public obviously, by electing president obama decided that they should. now, if nothing is done, if there is no agreement between democrats and republicans, then on january is 1st, the...
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>> that's pretty close to it, piers. very good source of mine who is directly familiar with what general petraeus plans to try and say on capitol hill tomorrow behind closed doors is laying that out. there's basically two threads here. who was responsible, what was their motivation. so they had all this extra intelligence, all these reports coming in that that anti-islam video which sparked riots in cairo was possibly the motivation for some of the attacks as well. at least that's the theory, that's how it's going to go. petraeus will say, we are told, that the cia was able to disprove that. that the video at the end of the day didn't have much to do with it, if anything, but the problem is that disproving of that theory came after he first testified and briefed capitol hill and apparently after ambassador susan rice made those comments. >> that's why it's so significant, it also came after ambassador rice's appearance on the sunday shows, where she is now being grilled by john mccain and others. i'm talking to him in a
>> that's pretty close to it, piers. very good source of mine who is directly familiar with what general petraeus plans to try and say on capitol hill tomorrow behind closed doors is laying that out. there's basically two threads here. who was responsible, what was their motivation. so they had all this extra intelligence, all these reports coming in that that anti-islam video which sparked riots in cairo was possibly the motivation for some of the attacks as well. at least that's the...
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mayor, welcome back. >> i appreciate it, piers. >> how are things in newark? we saw the things with chris christie and barack obama in new jersey. how are things where you are? >> the devastation in the southern parts of our state, command our attention, compassion and prayers. newark our major problem is power, still out to half of the city. still so many people in very vulnerable conditions, dependent on medicines that need to be refrigerated and others who are residents are trapped, disabled, unable to come down and worried. we have been delivering food and trying to get things done. unfortunately, we have announced a number of fatalities today. three in our city. one was in the form of a drowning. two unfortunately today two young women who had a generator hooked up and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. this is what we fear. we now have recovery going on. there are still hazards and some of them are created by people trying to compensate for the lack of power by open flames, using ovens to heat their homes or generators and it creates hazards everything f
mayor, welcome back. >> i appreciate it, piers. >> how are things in newark? we saw the things with chris christie and barack obama in new jersey. how are things where you are? >> the devastation in the southern parts of our state, command our attention, compassion and prayers. newark our major problem is power, still out to half of the city. still so many people in very vulnerable conditions, dependent on medicines that need to be refrigerated and others who are residents are...
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on that note, here is piers morgan tonight. >> "piers morgan tonight" starts now. >>> good evening. you're looking live at capitol hill, reeling from one november surprise after another, from turmoil in the highest ranks of the military to the looming fiscal cliff that threatens the american economy. tonight, washington is none too happy about being left out of the loop as the fbi investigates the general petraeus sex scandal. >> it's rather shocking to find out candidly that we weren't briefed. >> it would have been nice to know before we saw it on tv. >> the president was certainly surprised when he was informed about the situation regarding general petraeus on thursday. >> meanwhile, the top general in afghanistan allegedly caught red-handed exchanging flirtatious e-mails of his own with jill kelley. plus the debut of my new cnn colleague, the culinary superstar who will dine on anything, anthony bourdain is here. joining me is barbara starr and intelligence correspondent, suzanne kelly. welcome back to you both. every night i say right off the top, can any of us get our heads ro
on that note, here is piers morgan tonight. >> "piers morgan tonight" starts now. >>> good evening. you're looking live at capitol hill, reeling from one november surprise after another, from turmoil in the highest ranks of the military to the looming fiscal cliff that threatens the american economy. tonight, washington is none too happy about being left out of the loop as the fbi investigates the general petraeus sex scandal. >> it's rather shocking to find out...
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general. >> thanks, piers. i did want to come back, because i think the politicization of what's happened in benghazi deserves an answer. first of all, as the mayor well knows, after 9/11, democrats did not politicize this tragedy. not the first day, the first hour, not the first week, not the first month. but with respect to benghazi, i think we're all going to have to wait until the full investigation's done and the information comes out. there has been a lot of fragmentary reporting. now, i just want to say from my own experience inside the national security system, when i read the fragmentary reporting i get an entirely different picture than what mayor giuliani's portrayed here. what i get is a very responsive chain of command that deployed military assets from europe down to sicily, they were ready to go. they deployed a drone overhead, diverted it from another location. they had all kinds of backup plans. the truth was the assault on the annex itself was over before anybody could have responded with anyt
general. >> thanks, piers. i did want to come back, because i think the politicization of what's happened in benghazi deserves an answer. first of all, as the mayor well knows, after 9/11, democrats did not politicize this tragedy. not the first day, the first hour, not the first week, not the first month. but with respect to benghazi, i think we're all going to have to wait until the full investigation's done and the information comes out. there has been a lot of fragmentary reporting....
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some people telling us they waited three, four hours, piers to get on a bus today. a little more than an hour ago, as we were here at a bus stop, we witnessed a crush of people trying to get on one bus that pulled up. people have been patient all day but i think at that point some of them had clearly lost their patience. there was some swearing and pushing and shoving as everyone who had been lined up for hours -- things calmed down and the buses went on as they should have. tomorrow i have a bit of encouraging news for commuters. based on what the mayor is saying things should be better than what we witnessed here today. we are expecting to see restored in limited service, restored service on the lirr, the long island railroad and some subways. i say limited service. what commuters should do, piers is go on-line check with the mta to see which trains and subways will be running in and out of the city. >> a tale of cities in new york and for those who have got no power and the longer this goes on the more people will be feeling angry and concerned and it is up to au
some people telling us they waited three, four hours, piers to get on a bus today. a little more than an hour ago, as we were here at a bus stop, we witnessed a crush of people trying to get on one bus that pulled up. people have been patient all day but i think at that point some of them had clearly lost their patience. there was some swearing and pushing and shoving as everyone who had been lined up for hours -- things calmed down and the buses went on as they should have. tomorrow i have a...
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>> actually piers. president obama carried women by 13 points in 2008 and carried them by 11 points yesterday. so his margin was down. that is an unusual trend line. bill clinton, ronald reagan and george bush all re-elected and increased their margins by 7 to 8 points and obama went the other way. >> hang, on. he is still 11% ahead of mitt romney. so which over way the spin the apple cart. >> i don't want to spin anything. you know how i am on the women's vote and what republicans need to do about it. >> yes, and he -- >> he carried men. in fact the real gender gap exists but no one wants to talk about that. >> no one withins wants to talk about mitt romney's triumph in the election, he got hammered. >> all i'm saying is that women tend to favor democrats and men tend to favor republican ares. what happened yesterday is that women favored a successful president by slim digits and barack obama carried unmarried women. mitt romney carried married women. and mitt romney carried white women barack obama ca
>> actually piers. president obama carried women by 13 points in 2008 and carried them by 11 points yesterday. so his margin was down. that is an unusual trend line. bill clinton, ronald reagan and george bush all re-elected and increased their margins by 7 to 8 points and obama went the other way. >> hang, on. he is still 11% ahead of mitt romney. so which over way the spin the apple cart. >> i don't want to spin anything. you know how i am on the women's vote and what...
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those entertainment piers. of all the damage brought by sandy, these images are among the those that stand out the most. take a look at before and then the heartbreaking after. this is the casino pier and amusement park in seaside heights. three quarters century old. to television viewers who watched "the sopranos" or the jersey shore or listen to bruce springsteen sing about this place, there might be a sense of familiarity of it. but for millions of americans, this is a deep personal loss. >> that pier was beautiful. it had great rides. every one of you people or half you people has been on that pier. >> reporter: summer memories, a place where their parents brought them and they brought their own kids. until now, until this. harry smith is a councilman and business owner. his family ran the beach umbrella concession. it's gone now. >> this is heartbreaking. i've lived here my whole life. devastated. >> reporter: the best known and most dramatic image, the star jet roller coaster. it sat on the pier that used
those entertainment piers. of all the damage brought by sandy, these images are among the those that stand out the most. take a look at before and then the heartbreaking after. this is the casino pier and amusement park in seaside heights. three quarters century old. to television viewers who watched "the sopranos" or the jersey shore or listen to bruce springsteen sing about this place, there might be a sense of familiarity of it. but for millions of americans, this is a deep...
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>> i'm doing well, piers. thanks for having me on. >> i can't blame you for what happened because you got out of there three months before the end. >> but i can blame you for what happened. >> well, go on, then. try. >> no, i better wait for another day. we'll do that over a pint. >> let's just get to what went on with the election because what struck me as unusual was that unlike four years ago, there was a real belief amongst many senior republicans that mitt romney was going to win. they all seemed genuinely quite shocked that he didn't. why was that belief so built on sand, do you think? >> well, of course, election results are a little like post-modern art. people can look at the picture and see different things and some of these theories that people have post-election are sometimes hard to prove or disprove. but i think at a minimum we know this. mitt romney is a very honorable and gracious man and a very talented leader, but the republican party has some work to do and if you do a gap analysis of this e
>> i'm doing well, piers. thanks for having me on. >> i can't blame you for what happened because you got out of there three months before the end. >> but i can blame you for what happened. >> well, go on, then. try. >> no, i better wait for another day. we'll do that over a pint. >> let's just get to what went on with the election because what struck me as unusual was that unlike four years ago, there was a real belief amongst many senior republicans that...
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piers morgan starts right now. >>> good evening. breaking news. looking live at staten island in new york, still under water three days after sandy's fury. this is the next problem, long lines at gas stations. drivers getting angry, very, very angry. 88 deaths and at least 37 in new york city. why is it taking so long to fix this? i'll speak to one of the top people at con edison. residents are pleading for help of the storm that tossed boats around like toys. i'll talk to some of them in just a moment. and another huge storm could hit next week. i'll talk to chad myers about that. in the wake of a superstorm, climate change. and five days until election day. listen to what mitt romney said in virginia beach earlier. >> would you want four more years where -- i think it will be helpful to have a president who actually understands job creation. >> our cnn orc pochlt shows obama at 50 and romney at 48. we begin with one of the hardest hit areas from hurricane sandy, staten island where the death toll continues to rise. with me now is the assembly wo
piers morgan starts right now. >>> good evening. breaking news. looking live at staten island in new york, still under water three days after sandy's fury. this is the next problem, long lines at gas stations. drivers getting angry, very, very angry. 88 deaths and at least 37 in new york city. why is it taking so long to fix this? i'll speak to one of the top people at con edison. residents are pleading for help of the storm that tossed boats around like toys. i'll talk to some of them...
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governor, thank you very much for joining me. >> okay, piers. thank you. >>> coming up next, a woman who has seen her fair share of fallen idols. kitty kelley on the scandal. >>> and later, anthony bourdain is here to preview his brand new cnn show. here's one you may not have thought of -- fidelity. now you don't have to go to a bank to get the things you want from a bank, like no-fee atms, all over the world. free checkwriting and mobile deposits. now depositing a check is as easy as taking a picture. free online bill payments. a highly acclaimed credit card with 2% cash back into your fidelity account. open a fidelity cash management account today and discover another reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. so i never missed a beat. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. anne's tablet called my phone. anne's tablet was chatting with a tablet in sydney... a desktop in zurich... and
governor, thank you very much for joining me. >> okay, piers. thank you. >>> coming up next, a woman who has seen her fair share of fallen idols. kitty kelley on the scandal. >>> and later, anthony bourdain is here to preview his brand new cnn show. here's one you may not have thought of -- fidelity. now you don't have to go to a bank to get the things you want from a bank, like no-fee atms, all over the world. free checkwriting and mobile deposits. now depositing a...
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>> actually piers. president obama carried women by 13 points in 2008 and his margin was down two points. that is unuse wall trend line. all increased their margins by 7 to 8 points and obama went the other way. >> hang, on. he is still 11% ahead of mitt romney. so which over way the spin the apple cart. >> i don't want to spin anything. >> he carried men. in fact the real jgender gap e exists but no one wants to talk about that. >> he got hammered. >> all i'm saying is that women tend to favor democrats and men tend to favor republican ares. >> what happened yesterday is that women favored a successful president by slim digits and barack obama carried unmarried women. and mitt romney carried white women barack obama carried not white women. but on the broader question, three quick things, one is go to where the woman awomen are. the idea that women are going to click onto the adds to the tup of $1 billion is foolish and insulting to women. and there was never a good response about obamacare and about b
>> actually piers. president obama carried women by 13 points in 2008 and his margin was down two points. that is unuse wall trend line. all increased their margins by 7 to 8 points and obama went the other way. >> hang, on. he is still 11% ahead of mitt romney. so which over way the spin the apple cart. >> i don't want to spin anything. >> he carried men. in fact the real jgender gap e exists but no one wants to talk about that. >> he got hammered. >> all...
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welcome back. >> thank you, piers. >> i was reading your twitter earlier. you're actually inviting citizens in your area to come to your home and use your power facilities to charge up whatever they need, which is an extraordinary act by you, indicative that so many people are absolutely desperate for power. as the days go on, the emergency of that need accelerates all the time. >> yeah. as days go on, the endurance, the ability to withstand the lack of power, lack of food, warm clothing, showers, it all becomes more and more difficult to bear. look, there's a lot of people in newark showing signs of compassion and proactive service to their neighbors and my house borders a treat, a homestead that does not have power and the neighbors are always looking after me because i'm so often not home, the least i can be do is offer my home to them. all over the city i'm seeing extra ordinary acts of kindness and goodness from people from one to another. i'm trying my best to live up to the standards that are being set in my city right now. >> i think the feeling we'
welcome back. >> thank you, piers. >> i was reading your twitter earlier. you're actually inviting citizens in your area to come to your home and use your power facilities to charge up whatever they need, which is an extraordinary act by you, indicative that so many people are absolutely desperate for power. as the days go on, the emergency of that need accelerates all the time. >> yeah. as days go on, the endurance, the ability to withstand the lack of power, lack of food,...
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. >> this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, the re-election celebrations seem a long time ago for book, one week after defeat egg governor romney, staring down reporters white house fielding questions on the petraeus scandal, benghazi, the fiscal cliff and a long couple weeks with many waiting for answers. jay tap certificate a-- tapper s an abc correspondent. jay, welcome. >> thank you, great to be here. >> almost perfect timing, this book. discussing before we went on the air that it's -- it concern he is two great generals. mcchrystal and petraeus and they are both gone before the book has hit the streets come you have ever imagined when you were thought embedded with these troops that would happen? >> no the book mainly about the grunts on the ground but does look a lot at how people like president bush, president obama, secretaries of defense and how these celebrity jones, how their decisions end up affecting these guys at this very vulnerable outpost at the bottom of three steep mountains just 14 miles from
. >> this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, the re-election celebrations seem a long time ago for book, one week after defeat egg governor romney, staring down reporters white house fielding questions on the petraeus scandal, benghazi, the fiscal cliff and a long couple weeks with many waiting for answers. jay tap certificate a-- tapper s an abc correspondent. jay, welcome. >> thank you, great to be here. >> almost perfect timing, this book. discussing before we went on...
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yeah, we went to casino pier, we also went to the nearby fun town pier. and, yeah, casino pier is 300 meters out into the atlantic. and now it is just gone. the roller coaster, the slide jet roller coaster familiar to so many people, the pier disappeared from under it and it fell into the atlantic where it sits remarkably in tact given what it's gone through. extraordinary scenes. and for americans who aren't familiar with it, of course this is a touchstone place. this is a place that is summer for so many americans who have gone there because their parents went through who now take their children there and now it's all gone. anyone who's watched "sopranos" or "jersey shore" or bruce springsteen song, they've heard about the jersey boardwalks, 16 blocks of them, are either splintered or they've been undermined or buckled and they will all have to be replaced. 16 blocks worth of that famed boardwalk. the roller coaster was gone. there were 38 other rides and attractions on that pier. over at the funtown pier we spoke to a businessman as he stood on the sta
yeah, we went to casino pier, we also went to the nearby fun town pier. and, yeah, casino pier is 300 meters out into the atlantic. and now it is just gone. the roller coaster, the slide jet roller coaster familiar to so many people, the pier disappeared from under it and it fell into the atlantic where it sits remarkably in tact given what it's gone through. extraordinary scenes. and for americans who aren't familiar with it, of course this is a touchstone place. this is a place that is summer...
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good evening piers. i find it quite shameful that two of new york's major hospitals have suffered complete power outages given the fact that hurricane irene have threatened there must be an ongoing threat. it took a week to prepare that it was the biggest storm new york would see. bellevue hospital has for emergency generators on an upper floor that kicked into power thep hospital. this is an unprecedented storm. bases on a projection from the national hurricane center. the storm surge projections at their highest level would not have threatened our hospital which sits at a higher elevation on the same block that lost total power. the issue was our ability to sustain a huge complex to a level one trauma center that doesn't power the systems within the hospital. >> which every way you explain this it doesn't change the fact that you have hundreds of patients many krcritically i wi being ferried into the eye of the worst storm ever. i can't think of anything worse for a mother than a newborn child being fe
good evening piers. i find it quite shameful that two of new york's major hospitals have suffered complete power outages given the fact that hurricane irene have threatened there must be an ongoing threat. it took a week to prepare that it was the biggest storm new york would see. bellevue hospital has for emergency generators on an upper floor that kicked into power thep hospital. this is an unprecedented storm. bases on a projection from the national hurricane center. the storm surge...
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that's -- that's just about right, piers. yeah, yeah. >> did you ever think, when were you young, that one day you'd be world famous for crossdressing? >> never in a million years. even the first time i did it i never thought it would last as long as it did. i saw eddie murphy do it, the brilliant eddie murphy and thought i'll try my hand at at female character, and the audience loves it. >> i thought it was -- didn't know what you thought. tyler, grew up raised by strong black women. so much of what you do is a celebration of that. madea is that, a compilation of strong black women. it works because people see themselves. >> yeah, sure. i found as i've traveled the country that madea isn't just at black woman. there are lots of other madeas -- i've met an italian, jewish madea. >> about strong women? >> absolutely. the strength of the women and a lot of those around me. my mother was one. my aunt another. this woman carried a razor all the time. these women were very strong and you wouldn't want to sbrun them in a dark alley
that's -- that's just about right, piers. yeah, yeah. >> did you ever think, when were you young, that one day you'd be world famous for crossdressing? >> never in a million years. even the first time i did it i never thought it would last as long as it did. i saw eddie murphy do it, the brilliant eddie murphy and thought i'll try my hand at at female character, and the audience loves it. >> i thought it was -- didn't know what you thought. tyler, grew up raised by strong...
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piers morgan starts right now. >> good evening. you are looking live at capitol hill. where david petreaus is set to testify. the fbi agent that started the investigation had been identified at frederick w. humphreys the ii. and he says that the shirtless picture that he sent her was a joke and sent years ago. he remains on duty and no action has been taken again him. if senator mccain and senator frame and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me but for them to go after the un ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and to mark her reputation is outrageous. >> if the president thinks we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. >> we begin tonight with the investigation. >> welcome back. >> here is my overview with where we are on this today. the soon to be floorious name to go with the story. he seems to be. clearing himself and doing anything wrong is that right? we have a couple of sources who have come out and said,
piers morgan starts right now. >> good evening. you are looking live at capitol hill. where david petreaus is set to testify. the fbi agent that started the investigation had been identified at frederick w. humphreys the ii. and he says that the shirtless picture that he sent her was a joke and sent years ago. he remains on duty and no action has been taken again him. if senator mccain and senator frame and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me but for them to go after...
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. >> piers, thank you for your spirited defense. michael, thank you for your remarkable concern. i want you to know and i tweeted you, cnn didn't instruct me to be anywhere. we tried to get the story out as well as we could. and this is not our first rodeo. we paid close attention to safety concerns. >> people are watching ali on the screen and this is where -- it this looks like the first hour or two, and you look like, you know, you were really into it. but i was watching you in the fourth and fifth hour, and you really had -- i felt so bad for you. did you draw the short straw at cnn? and you are such a great business reporter, you know, what i really want to know this week, what's on the tax returns that mitt romney won't show us? that's what america wants to know. what's he hiding? >> the great thing is that ali velshi will tell us on that as well. and he is outstandingly courageous. we have to go. we're running late. >> if you don't like it here, come work for me. >> that is worse than standing in the water in atlantic city. >> that's true. >>> piers, thank you very much. g
. >> piers, thank you for your spirited defense. michael, thank you for your remarkable concern. i want you to know and i tweeted you, cnn didn't instruct me to be anywhere. we tried to get the story out as well as we could. and this is not our first rodeo. we paid close attention to safety concerns. >> people are watching ali on the screen and this is where -- it this looks like the first hour or two, and you look like, you know, you were really into it. but i was watching you in...
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. >> a former cia operative robert on "piers morgan tonight" said he is known four or five cia directors who had extra marital affairs and this has to be about something more than just sex. do you agree with that or just honor was the reason that he resigned? >> look, i had the privilege of working with david petraeus, both at my time in the white house and then on the external advisory board. and i think this was a very difficult decision for him, but i do believe that he's been forthright about it. i think that for him having worn the uniform and lived by the code of military justice, he understands that his behavior is inconsistent with the values. in his book he talks about live your values and he's not done that. and i think that this is a personal failing for him and he feels the weight of that. so, i believe that this is really about what he says. it's about the affair. he feel like he didn't live his own valus and that he needed to step back from the leadership position from public life to deal with it. >> we know that the reporting thus far has indicated that this was a surprise
. >> a former cia operative robert on "piers morgan tonight" said he is known four or five cia directors who had extra marital affairs and this has to be about something more than just sex. do you agree with that or just honor was the reason that he resigned? >> look, i had the privilege of working with david petraeus, both at my time in the white house and then on the external advisory board. and i think this was a very difficult decision for him, but i do believe that...
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"piers morgan tonight" starts now. >>> good evening. breaking news. you're looking live at the white house where on the outside, everything looks calm but behind closed doors, an administration in panic dealing with the petraeus sex scandal that threatens to spin out of control less than one week after president obama's re-election. big questions tonight. what did the white house know and when did it know it. the four-star general has said to be devastated about the scandal, sparked by his affair with his biographer, paula broadwell, uncovered during an fbi investigation. the bureau was looking into so-called jealous e-mails purchase reportedly send by broadwell to kelley, a petraeus family friend. tonight, the "washington post" has reported that as president obama rearranges his national security team, it is considering asking senator john kerry to serve on the team and the fbi agent was barred from taking part in the case for allegedly sending shirtless pictures of himself to a woman involved in the case. meanwhile, the ghost writer of broadwell's b
"piers morgan tonight" starts now. >>> good evening. breaking news. you're looking live at the white house where on the outside, everything looks calm but behind closed doors, an administration in panic dealing with the petraeus sex scandal that threatens to spin out of control less than one week after president obama's re-election. big questions tonight. what did the white house know and when did it know it. the four-star general has said to be devastated about the scandal,...
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the roller coaster that sat at the end of the pier is resting on the ocean floor. much of it intact. heart breaking and hard to believe especially for residents or anyone who spent a summer or prom weekend there. it's devastating, isn't it? you can check out other top cnn trends. head to cnn.com/trends. >> they are tough times. there are those trying to coax a smile in the aftermath of this. late night hosts got mileage out of new york city's recovery plan. when it comes to the car pool rule, they all hit the gas. >> tonight, may i ask -- may i ask who this gentleman is? >> it's chris, right? >> yeah. >> hi, chris, how you doing? >> i didn't know chris was coming. >> bloomberg said you have to have three people in the car so -- >> you know to get into new york city, if you are in a private car, you have to have three passengers or more to enter new york city. today, i had to car pool in with the girl's from "the view." new york city is still dealing with the effects of hurricane sandy. because of all the congestion in the city, mayor bloomberg is only allowing cars
the roller coaster that sat at the end of the pier is resting on the ocean floor. much of it intact. heart breaking and hard to believe especially for residents or anyone who spent a summer or prom weekend there. it's devastating, isn't it? you can check out other top cnn trends. head to cnn.com/trends. >> they are tough times. there are those trying to coax a smile in the aftermath of this. late night hosts got mileage out of new york city's recovery plan. when it comes to the car pool...
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>> later a more cheerful senator mccain talked to piers morgan. >> it was a scheduling error. i got all the future hearings, including the one tomorrow morning with general petraeus. >>> who is the sexiest man alive? it's not channing tatum. according to the onion, it's not will cain either, it's kim jong-un. there he is, alongside channing tatum. onion says the 29-year-old north korean supreme leader gets the nod with his devastatingly handsome looks, boyish charm, round cheeks plus, the onion says, they have a cuddly side. >> now we're quoting "the onion." >>> former cia director david petraeus is testifying right now behind closed doors. house committee wants to know everything he knows about the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. at the same time he is investigating, the cia is launch an investigation into the conduct that forced him to resign last week. dana bash is in washington for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. david petraeus has been behind closed doors for about an hour now, or so we're told. we never actual ly saw hi
>> later a more cheerful senator mccain talked to piers morgan. >> it was a scheduling error. i got all the future hearings, including the one tomorrow morning with general petraeus. >>> who is the sexiest man alive? it's not channing tatum. according to the onion, it's not will cain either, it's kim jong-un. there he is, alongside channing tatum. onion says the 29-year-old north korean supreme leader gets the nod with his devastatingly handsome looks, boyish charm, round...
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"piers morgan tonight" starts now. mr. president, welcome to new york. many americans see you as public enemy number one. how do you feel about that? >> the creator, the almighty, the most gracious and the most merciful. and good morning to you. i wish to greet all of the wonderful people of the united states and all of the people who will see your program. at the end of the day, if you do have personal animosity towards me, don't transfer that on to the rest of the people of the united states. we love the people of the united states and they also wish in return peace and stability for all of the world. >> the big catalyst for protests at the moment in the middle east was the video that was released which mocked the prophet muhammad. as a result, there was an attack, as you know, on the american embassy in benghazi, libya. the ambassador christopher stevens was murdered. do you condemn the attack which caused his murder? >> fundamentally, first of all, any action that is provocative offends the religious thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn. l
"piers morgan tonight" starts now. mr. president, welcome to new york. many americans see you as public enemy number one. how do you feel about that? >> the creator, the almighty, the most gracious and the most merciful. and good morning to you. i wish to greet all of the wonderful people of the united states and all of the people who will see your program. at the end of the day, if you do have personal animosity towards me, don't transfer that on to the rest of the people of...